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Corona - what does help you? Your fears, thoughts, everything
Front-Ranger:
You may recall my friend M. who used to be a suitor, then found a more suitable girlfriend, broke up with her and asked to come back to me, and I said yes, but just as friends. He has just turned 80 and is celebrating two years of being free from throat cancer. He's also asthmatic, so his doctors have forbid him to be out in society during these plague times.
That was a hard sentence for him because he is very outgoing and social. So last week, a museum that he is a member of called him and said they would open up the museum for him only. He was free to walk around among the exhibits all by himself for as long as he liked. It was the highlight of his week!
CellarDweller:
Oh, that was really sweet of them to do that for him! I'm sure he was so happy.
Yeah, we are really messing this up ourselves here in the US. I was just reading online about a 30 year-old man who died in a Texas hospital. His last words were 'I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it's not,'
He had gone to a "Covid Party", where the host was diagnosed, and the point of the party is to see who will get infected at the party.
::)
Sason:
So he won? ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
I believe it's called natural selection.....
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on July 11, 2020, 03:00:43 pm ---Oh, that was really sweet of them to do that for him! I'm sure he was so happy.
Yeah, we are really messing this up ourselves here in the US. I was just reading online about a 30 year-old man who died in a Texas hospital. His last words were 'I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it's not,'
He had gone to a "Covid Party", where the host was diagnosed, and the point of the party is to see who will get infected at the party.
::)
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Yet another nominee for this year's Darwin Award. ::)
If only this weren't way too sad. Even a fully blown half-twit does have a family, a mom, a brother, maybe a wife and even children who will miss him dearly.
And to think about the people he might have infected unknowingly before he fell ill. About the nurses who put their own health at risk to care for the half-twit, and so on. So many ripples… :(
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on July 12, 2020, 04:44:55 am ---Yet another nominee for this year's Darwin Award. ::)
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It's going to be a crowded field this year. ::)
As I've mentioned, some of my reporting has required me to go into crowds of anti-mask, anti-shutdown protesters who don't wear mask or social distance on principle, who scream in each others' faces and carry around big guns (which in normal times would be bad enough in itself). The last one was over a month ago, so I'm in the clear.
But I often wonder since then how many of those people are still as free of COVID as they were convinced they'd always be.
I was talking to someone about the anti-masking portion of the population. That portion of the population will probably be shrinking, I said.
--- Quote ---If only this weren't way too sad. Even a fully blown half-twit does have a family, a mom, a brother, maybe a wife and even children who will miss him dearly.
And to think about the people he might have infected unknowingly before he fell ill. About the nurses who put their own health at risk to care for the half-twit, and so on. So many ripples… :(
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You are much more compassionate than me, Chrissi, because I didn't even think about those parts. I have more of the mean "that's what you get for being an idiot" kind of reaction. But of course you're right.
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